Tuition fees
The tension between the old and the young
Thousands of teenagers ran out of their schools and sixth form colleges clutching GCSE and A-Level results last week, many of them excited about what the future holds. But that future is rarely in their hands.
By Caroline Mortimer | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at 12:00 am
On GCSE results day: The great university con trick
At this time of year tens of thousands of excited young people are busy packing kettles and ironing boards ready for next term while others are desperately scrambling through Clearing in the hope that they might, just might, get a place to study something – anything – in a higher education institution a long way from home even if it’s only Horology with Romanian at the University of NeverHeardOfIt.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 4:00 am
Why I picked the vocational route
Studying through an apprenticeship isn’t for everyone. You’re thrown in the deep end, into the working world, and you either sink or swim.
By Helen Wright | Notebook | Saturday, 4 August 2012 at 12:00 am
The tale of the 8.9%: Why I left the education system
Just under a year ago, I faced a pretty monumental decision. At the age of seventeen, I had to weigh up two contrasting options for my future. In September 2012, I could have chosen to remain within the stable borders of the conventional education system, but stack up a minimum £27,000 of debt. My alternative was to enter the world of work and search for a modest income, whilst youth unemployment soars.
By Callum Jones | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 2:00 am
Tuition fees, and an Oxford professor’s last lesson
It’s difficult with words to do justice – pun reluctantly intended – to the positive impact that Professor Freedland has had on the lives of countless people, the overwhelming majority of whom he will never meet.
By Musa Okwonga | Notebook | Sunday, 22 July 2012 at 3:06 pm
A rise in tuition fees might just be exactly what this country needs
Much to the anger of student organisations across the country and the shame of red-faced Liberal Democrats, university tuition fees have gone up. But is this such a bad thing?
By Will Robson | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 13 July 2012 at 6:00 am
Leveson, and why the public do care
There it was again. The assumption that I have seen from so many politicians and media commentators that almost no-one outside the political world cares about what is happening at the Leveson inquiry. I think that this assumption is wrong. Worse than that, it is staggeringly, appallingly, dangerously wrong.
By Musa Okwonga | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 15 June 2012 at 4:05 am
Will tuition fees end the prospects of mature medical students?
Mature medical students come from a more varied background than their undergraduate Contemporaries. Has the rise in tuition fees made studying medicine unattainable to a whole generation of potentially excellent doctors.
By Dr Ben Daniels | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 2 February 2012 at 12:01 am
The fall in university applicants is not such a bad thing
That the number of university applicants has fallen by 8.7% is wholly unsurprising. Be it the trebled tuition fees or the realisation degree does not always equal job, scores of would-be students are thinking twice. But what is notable about these figures is they go against almost everything we assumed to be true when the hike in tuition fees was announced. That the disadvantaged would be hardest hit has been disproved, and the vision of youngsters turning their backs on higher education called into question. These are, in fact, some rather myth-busting figures.
By Emma McFarnon | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 3:01 pm
Campus confidential: The conversation begins
Money may be tight, but at least the atmosphere in the classroom is finally loosening up for our mystery lecturer…
By The Professor | Notebook | Monday, 17 October 2011 at 10:00 am
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